Histoire des Empereurs, et des et des autres princes qui ont regne durant les six premiers siecles de l'eglise, de leurs guerres contre les Juifs, des ecivains profanes, & des personnes les plus illustres de leur temps.
( History of the Emperors and other Princes who reigned during the first six centuries of the Church from their wars against the Jews Secular Writers & the most illustrious people of their time)
by LENAIN DE TILLEMONT [Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont]
Venise: Chez Francois Pitteri, 1732-1739.
First Venetian edition, after the original published in Paris from 1690 to 1701 for the first five volumes, 1738 for the sixth posthumous volume published on the author's manuscript.
6 title vignettes signed Joan Cattini.
Large 4to (8 1/4 by 11 3/4")
Vol. I: xl, 712pp.
Vol. II: xxiv, 626pp.
Vol. III: xxviii, 587pp.
Vol. IV: xxxii, 751pp.
Vol. IV: [2], 868 columns, [46]pp (Index).
Vol. V: xxxvi, 878pp. (2 pages with small tear, 2cm, in upper margin. Not affecting text.).
Vol. VI: xxxi, 711pp.

Complete
Original Italian full vellum binding. Some chipping and loss to spine labels. Occasional very light foxing.
Tight bindings.
Excellent interior condition except small damage to the edge of the upper margin of some pages in volume 5

Louis-Sebastien Le Nain de Tillemont (30 November 1637 – 10 January 1698) was a French ecclesiastical historian.



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